Lianliankan

Chapter 72 Difficult decision
It's late, Ji Chunguang's word film.

Li Suhua was standing in her courtyard, feeding two old hens with a handful of rice. When she looked up inadvertently, she caught a glimpse of a figure riding a bicycle, passing by outside the courtyard wall.

She hurriedly put the dustpan on the ground and shouted into the room: "Kun'er, I seem to have seen your Brother Xiao Ye, you should go to his house to see if he is back?"

After a while, Zhou Bingkun reluctantly walked out with half a piece of Zamian pancake in his mouth, and complained, "Maybe it's the same as the day before yesterday, and it's his friend who came."

"Hurry up and don't dawdle. With the time to talk to your mother, I've already run back and forth."

After sending her son away, Li Suhua suddenly thought that the sleeves of the clothes she made for her daughter were still missing, so she hurried back to the house to search around.

Li Suhua was not mistaken, it was indeed Zhao Ye who came back. He didn't even eat lunch at noon today, so he drove Gao Xiaoqin by car, and hurried along the way, and finally returned to Jichun before dark.

After sending Gao Xiaoqin to the gate of the municipal party committee compound, and making an appointment to return tomorrow, he returned to the optical film.

At this moment, looking at the bag of white flour on the ground, Zhao Ye was secretly worried. He suddenly realized that his previous thoughts were a little immature.

Because in Wujiatun, he and all the educated youths ate in the same pot. Under such circumstances, it might not be a good thing to rashly bring white noodles.

It's not that he is reluctant to part with this little food, but in the current era, everything should be low-key. It's okay for you to take some back home occasionally, and others will only praise you for your ability.

But if there are too many times, who knows if someone will be jealous. If a bad thing is reported, and you can't tell the source of the thing, it's broken, and it's a speculative at least.

Just when Zhao Ye was in a dilemma, Zhou Bingkun asked outside the house: "Brother Xiaoye, are you back?"

Hearing this voice, Zhao Ye couldn't help but his eyes lit up, and an idea popped up in his heart. He stepped forward and held the dough bag in his hand, and while walking out, he responded, "It's me."

"My mother said that she looked like you from a distance, and I also said that she was dazzled, but I didn't expect it to be you."

"Aunt must want to inquire about Zhou Rong, let's go, don't make her wait."

Zhao Ye closed the door casually, and walked out of the courtyard first. Zhou Bingkun followed behind and asked: "What are you doing with the noodles when you go to my house? Could it be that my sister asked you to bring them back? That's not right, isn't it that people in the countryside can't get enough to eat? ?”

"Don't ask, I'll talk about it when I get to your house."

While talking, the two had already arrived at Zhou's courtyard, and Zhou Bingkun shouted loudly: "Mom, I invited Brother Xiao Ye."

Li Suhua replied in the room: "Understood, you come in by yourself, I'm busy."

The two stepped into the house, and saw Li Suhua sitting cross-legged on the kang, sewing a red coat with a needle and thread in his hand. Judging from the style and color, it could only be for Zhou Rong.

"Xiaoye is here, let Kun'er accompany you for dinner first, and then talk to you after Auntie finishes sewing these stitches."

It was not the first time for Zhao Ye to dine at Zhou's house, and he was not polite when he heard the words. He sat at the dining table naturally, ate two corn tortillas with pickles, and drank a bowl of miscellaneous cereals.

During the meal breaks, Zhou Bingkun never stopped talking, asking questions from time to time, many of which were about jumping in the queue.

Zhao Ye saw that he seemed to be very interested in going to the countryside, so he picked up some interesting stories and told them, not wanting to arouse Zhou Bingkun's thoughts, so he heard him sigh and say: "Oh, if I knew it was so interesting, I would go to the countryside." Home."

"What, you're having trouble at the lumber factory?"

Hearing Zhao Ye's question, Zhou Bingkun immediately vomited bitterness: "Don't mention it, I am a material worker in the timber factory. This job is not done by humans at all. I have no leisure at all. Since I went there, my shoulder has not felt better. .”

After finishing his work, Li Suhua came over and interjected: "Then no one is to blame. At the beginning I said to go to the street to manage the relationship and find you a better job, but you insisted that I don't need it. What's the use of talking about it now.

Besides, Sun Chachao and Xiao Guoqing are also material workers, so it's good if they don't do it?How did it get into your mouth? This job is not done by humans.It's a pity that your father is not here, if he hears it, he can't beat you! "

Zhou Bingkun defended a little unconvinced: "I'm not thinking that there are five members of our family, my father is going to support the third front, my brother is going to build the frontier corps, and my sister is going to join the team and go to the countryside. How can we be regarded as a model family on the street? Then Don't give priority to taking care of me, and arrange an easy and decent job for me."

"See what you can do, what's the matter, the street office is run by our family? You want to think about good things every day, and you're not afraid of your Brother Xiaoye's jokes?"

After finishing speaking, Li Suhua saw that Zhao Ye had stopped his chopsticks, and couldn't help but asked with concern: "Xiaoye, are you full, do you want some more?"

Zhao Ye patted his stomach, shook his head and said in satisfaction: "I'm already full, and my aunt's cooking is more to my liking, so let's not mention the food in the country."

Hearing this, Li Suhua's face was full of worry: "Tell aunt in detail about your jumping in line."

Zhao Ye didn't hide it, anyway, he just said what he had, but Li Suhua couldn't do it. When she heard that her daughter not only had to eat coarse grains in the countryside, but also had to work in the fields every day, she couldn't hold back her tears. , both in and out of the words revealed distressed meaning.

Zhao Ye comforted: "Auntie, don't worry too much. Apart from the poor food we have in Wujiatun, the rest are actually passable."

Speaking of this, he paused for a while, and laughed at himself: "No matter how hard it is, jumping in the queue in the northeast is better than going to those places in northern Shaanxi. At least you don't have to beg for food."

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit heavy, Zhou Bingkun hurriedly changed the subject and said, "By the way, Brother Xiaoye, I forgot to tell you. After you left, many people came to look for you, and there was a girl among them who was very good-looking. gone."

Zhao Ye didn't pay attention to it at first, only when Zhou Bingkun was talking about Shuiziliu and the others, he was surprised when he heard a girl, "Girl, what girl, why didn't you ask her?"

"She said her name is Zheng Juan, she lives in Taiping Hutong, and she came to thank you for treating her younger brother. I didn't believe it at first, but I thought about you, brother Xiaoye, and you don't know medical skills until..."

Zhao Ye heard what he was talking about, and couldn't help interrupting: "Don't talk about what's good and bad, just get to the point."

Zhou Bingkun scratched his head in embarrassment, got up and brought a cloth bag from the back room, and handed it to Zhao Ye.

"Zheng Juan gave it to you. She said that the family had nothing to thank you for, so she made a few pairs of insoles for you."

Zhao Ye untied the bag, and sure enough, he saw five or six pairs of insoles tied with hemp rope inside. The insoles were also embroidered with red, green and green patterns of flowers and birds.

Li Suhua looked over his head for a few moments, and commented with a professional eye: "It's really well done, it can be seen that he is ingenious."

Zhao Ye just nodded without expressing any opinion.

But Zhou Bingkun asked suddenly: "Brother Xiaoye, how did you know Zheng... No, I mean how did you know people from Taiping Hutong?"

Zhao Ye looked at Zhou Bingkun thoughtfully, and asked in a complicated tone: "You boy, don't you have a crush on someone else's girl?"

As soon as this remark came out, Zhou Bingkun jumped up like an electric shock, shook his head frantically and denied it: "No, no! I just asked, there is no other meaning."

It is true to say so, but Zhou Bingkun's guilty look is not convincing at all, even Zhao Ye can see the abnormality, let alone Li Suhua.

She didn't dare to say it: "Kun'er, do you really have a crush on that girl?"

Facing the suspicious eyes of the two, Zhou Bingkun lowered his eyelids and replied in a low voice: "I just think that Zheng Juan is pretty."

Li Suhua's first reaction was to stop him: "Kun'er, you are still young. Aren't your brother and sister not married yet? And don't think that your mother's words are not pleasant. The people in Taiping Hutong are really... In short, you Don't be confused."

Just as there is regional discrimination in various provinces and cities in later generations, it is the same here in optical film.Although the light-text films are broken and poor enough, when people here mention Taiping Hutong, they still shake their heads.

It is normal for Li Suhua to have this reaction.

But as the saying goes, knowing a son is like a mother, and his son knows it himself. Li Suhua knows that under the simple and honest appearance of his youngest son, there is actually a stubbornness that eight cows can't pull back.

So, after a few words of persuasion, she turned to Zhao Ye and said, "Xiaoye, tell aunt honestly, what is your relationship with the girl Bingkun mentioned?"

At this moment, Zhao Ye hesitated. As a normal man, especially a man who is used to coquettish sluts in later generations, it would be a fool to say that he has no idea about a good wife and mother like Zheng Juan!

But the problem is that every time Zhao Ye asks himself, he has to admit that when he first saw the world, the love between Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan seemed to be a ray of sunshine in his heart, which made him both moved and longing.

Everyone has a longing for a better side, how can Zhao Ye be an exception?
Finally, after some struggles, especially after Gao Xiaoqin's appearance flashed in his mind, Zhao Ye chose to tell the truth: "I have only met Zheng Juan's mother and younger brother, but not her in person."

When Zhou Bingkun heard this, his face was full of joy, but Li Suhua hesitated again and again, and still said earnestly to Zhou Bingkun: "Kun'er, listen to Mom, we are not in a hurry, let's not say whether your father will agree, just Other girls may not necessarily fall in love with you, either."

The last sentence was like a basin of cold water, pouring Zhou Bingkun from fantasy to reality in one fell swoop, causing his face to collapse suddenly, and he sat down on the stool dejectedly, not wanting to say a word.

Li Suhua was not in a hurry to appease her son, but instead asked Zhao Ye when he would return to Wujiatun. After hearing that it was tomorrow, she said that she would bring some change of clothes and food for Zhou Rong.

Zhao Ye put the bag of flour under his feet in front of his eyes at the right time, and said to Li Suhua: "Auntie, I was going to tell you about the food. I think so. There are too many educated youths, and it is too tempting to bring food. People are paying attention, so I would like to ask you to steam some steamed buns and take them with you, so that Zhou Rong and I can avoid people when we eat."

Li Suhua, who came from the old society, has seen all kinds of tragedies caused by food, and immediately understood:

"It's because you have a bright mind, my aunt almost did something bad with good intentions."

As she said that, she weighed the flour bags on the ground with her hands, and suggested: "I think you have at least twenty catties of white flour here, how about this, I'll add more than ten catties of stick flour and make two-combined noodle steamed buns for you. Unobtrusive and easy to store."

"Okay, then trouble Auntie!"

"What did you say? It should be my aunt who thanked you. Not only did you take care of us, Zhou Rong, in the countryside, but you also took out so much flour at one time. Our family took all of your money."

Zhao Ye made a few polite remarks, and after discussing with Li Suhua to get the steamed buns tomorrow, he said goodbye and left.

Coming out of Zhou's house, looking at the moon rising in the sky without knowing when, Zhao Ye felt a sense of loss in his heart.

In the end, he is just a mortal, and sometimes he is greedy, even if he decides not to disturb Zheng Juan's life, he still feels a bit uneasy after all.Therefore, when Zhou Bingkun expressed his affection for Zheng Juan, he remained on the sidelines and did not say a good word for her.

Feeling depressed, Zhao Ye simply didn't bother to go home, and turned his head towards Tu Zhiqiang's house, intending to find him and Shui Ziliu for a drink.

When they got there, Tu Zhiqiang's house was brightly lit, and the two were drinking with a group of friends. They were very happy to see Zhao Ye coming, and hurriedly dragged him to a seat.

During the period, Shui Ziliu asked Zhao Ye if he had seen the food he had prepared. Zhao Ye replied yes and thanked him.

The next day, Zhao Ye buried the belongings in the space at home, changed some food into it, and then picked up Gao Xiaoqin according to the agreed time, and the two returned to Wujiatun together.

For the next period of time, the days passed very peacefully, and Zhao Ye gradually got used to the days of jumping in the queue, working at sunrise and resting at sunset every day.

With the joint efforts of their six educated youths, a total of [-] mu of land was reclaimed, and when the spring rains came in April, corn and sorghum were planted there.

Seeing the fruits of their labor, everyone was very excited. Gao Xiaoqin said, why not organize a bonfire party to celebrate. As soon as this proposal came out, everyone immediately responded.

That night, under the light of the fire, Huang Xinhua and Han Jianguo partnered to perform a two-player performance first. The content was full of flirtatious remarks, which caused the boys to cheer loudly, while the two girls were very coquettish, laughing and cursing shamelessly.

Then, the rest of them took turns to appear on the stage. Among them, the one that caught Zhao Ye's attention the most was naturally the show of the two beauties.

Zhou Rong read aloud the great man's "Seven Laws of the Long March" for everyone with eloquence, which won applause from all the halls.

And Gao Xiaoqin sang "On the Songhua River", a song that is widely sung in Northeast China.

What surprised Zhao Ye and the others was that this girl's voice was in excellent condition, and everyone was stunned as soon as she spoke. It's time for the era of fighting against the national crisis with the same hatred and hatred.

Zhao Ye didn't know what other people thought, but the scene of Gao Xiaoqin singing was deeply engraved in his heart, so many years later, he would always think of this night, a girl once stood by the campfire and used her natural voice Sings like a voice:
"My home is on the Songhua River in the northeast, where there are forest coal mines..."

　Thanks for the support of the monthly ticket of Shuyou Shenwang 9527, 2020181222001815351, 20180714174730380, 20170930204735800.

　　Originally I wanted to write more about going to the countryside, but I was afraid that people would not like to read it, and I was worried that it would take up too much space, so I decided to skip it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)